The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-07-27
Letter from Charleston.
CHARLESTON, S. c., July %, 1887.

The citizens of Charleston have
sweltered for the last week in the
chief characteristic OF the Sunny
South" with the mercury ranging in
the ninetisss day and night. About
twenty-five deaths occurred from the
effect of the intense heat, besides more
than dozen horses dropped dead on
the streets. Vegetation is seriously
damaged and unless We get rain in a
short time, the loss will be alarming.
The conductors excursion brought
about 1000 visitors to the city this
week, and all seemed to enjoy peram-
loulating the sstreets, and rushing to
and fro in every direction, notwith
standing the burning rays of the sun.
Many hundreds cruised around tue
harbor, and were truly delighted with
their "trip on the ocean" as some We're
heard to say; but not quite, as the
ocean is II miles away AID Charleston
harbor is only the mouth Of Cooper
and Ashley rivers.
The Common Pleas Court, Judge
Fraser, presiding, heard the case Of
Geo ". Malone ct. al. against the es-
cheaters OF the estate of Thos- ". Ma
lone, valued at 100000, this week.
! Thos. W. Malone was a lawyer of abil-
ity, who practiced in Charleston for-
thirty years, and died in 1864, leaving
a large city property with 10 claimant.
He was reticent to his most intimate
friends even, on the subject of his an
ticedents, and bis property escheated
to the State. Geo. ". Malone, a
Young man from Kershaw county at
tempted to establish his relationship
to deceased, ana consequent right to
the property, and would lave done so,
doubtless, but for the discovery on
one OF the old records in the Custom
House, that Thos. W. Malone landed
in tbs country in 1882, took out M
turalization papers, became citizen
and located IN Charleston. The es-
tate will 60 to tie educational fund
Of the State.
The trial OF about twenty negroes
for intimidating Government witness
es came Of in the Z. S. Court We'd
nesday, and resulted in an acquittal.
This was what is known as the ku
Klux case, and many northern con-
temporaries looked forward to it with
interest with the object OF raising a
howl in case OF a conviction. It Is
true that the Government only PROV
ed that there was an organization
whose members met 2 o'clock at night
to ''iro in money" and could not pro-
cure conviction for a conspiracy, but
it nevertheless proved that threats
were made and carried into effect by
;. members Of this unlawful assembly,
though they did not act conformity
The Government eau find out if !:
wishes to, who the guilty parties are,
ard it should spare no means to bring
, them to justice, that the innocent
white democrats may be vindicated
from the suspicion of Ku hluxism and
those white Republicans with few
foolish negroes, VINO have no more
sense than to be made tools of by
them, held responsible for all the un
, lawful acts of the Au klux in the past
and should be made to bear the conse
quence OF these acts.
? Mr.. J. ". Mcleod and Mr. u. ia
5 cobs, of your town, ere IN the city
. The former in attendance on tn,
United States Court, the latter under
going treatment by Dr.. kinloch TO
e contracted sinews Of one OF his hands
j which closed almost entirely two fin